Posted on 10/29/2017 6:28:10 AM PDT by Redmen4ever
Government parties loose seats and newcomers carry the day
(Excerpt) Read more at icelandmonitor.mbl.is ...
Its junior partners in the outgoing government also lost seats: The market-liberal Reform Party fell from 7 to 3 seats, and the social-liberal Bright Future Party fell from 4 to zero seats.
The big winners of the election may be the populist parties (which the Independence Party must now negotiate to try to put together a ruling coalition)::
The Progressive Party, which is similar to the Independence Party but inclined to rural concerns, which retained its 8 seats.
The new Center Party, practically a clone of the Progressive Party, which picked up 7 seats.
And, the People's Party, also new, which combines populism with concerns for the poor and disabled of the country. It gained 4 seats.
While assembling a ruling coalition will be challenging, it could have been much worse for Iceland. A week ago, opinion polls were showing the neo-communist Green-Left Movement in first place.
Wow, they’re just tiny. Only 333k population. My suburban city, the 5 adjacent suburban cities, and one additional nearby suburban city (adjacent to two of the 5) total 393k, significantly more. And our metro area is around 6 million.
Just for comparison purposes.
You’re exactly right, FreedomPoster.
Not to pick on Iceland, but there’s something wrong in the U.N. and other international bodies that treat each country, regardless of size, as equal.
And, regarding the U.S., if countries the size of Iceland can exercise sovereignty, what’s wrong with returning domestic policy to the states (and, even breaking up some of the bigger states)?
Yeah, and it’s cold too.
Just got back from Iceland....it is AMAZING DIFFERENT than any place I;ve ever seen!!! 90% of the island is uninhabitable......only the coastline is livable!! Fire and Ice baby! What isn’t steaming is covered in glaciers!
I’m relieved the swine didn’t come in first.
Ind + Center + Prog is one seat short of a majority
People’s = left wing but anti-immigration it looks like, eesh, Pro-EU Reform is other choice to round out a majority coalition.
Iceland my friends, you’ve got too many parties
It does look really cool to visit.
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